New year – new beginnings

I have been rather lax with this blog.  This year I have started the year with a bang in that  have been able to focus on studio time.  After Xmas I created the piece Adagio Etude –  the Lost City.  It is created entirely with pieces of eco dyed and printed fabrics.

It is a  collaged abstract landscape referencing the amazing rock structures of the Lost Cities on Savannah Way in the Northern Territory, Australia draws one in to reveal the eco prints of local Snowy Mountain native plant leaves as shadows and textures emerge from incorporation of the running stitch.  I really enjoyed the time sent stitching as it is a slow process yet so contemplative.